5/13/2009

Wanna be a pirate?. First of all get your own flag





Leaving aside the pirate flag of Edward England, the most famous, added in the video above by the Youtuber, if you watch the entire movie you won't see any classic sign of PIRACY. No flag apart some tore piece of cloth, a small motorboat instead of a vessel... so far, for me they are not pirates. Everybody sailing a boat assaulting and robbering is a pirate for them. But the differences between a pirate and a bandit is huge - I am not talking about violences, rapes and murders, which I hate anywhere they come from -: yet, notice it, pirates, the true pirates, the historycal ones, gathered under a flag, personally draught by their commander, terrible for the depicted subject, but still the symbol of a distinction that made the pirate ship something the like of a Nation and not a boat filled by desperate men. It is so simple, piracy was a way of life and not a necessity. Don't you think so? Come along with me through the semantic of piracy:

1 Edward England
(Ireland ? - 1721):
This is a classic so that it has got a name, too: Jolly Roger







2 Edward Teach Blackbeard
(Bristol 1680 ab.-22/11/1718):




3 Bartholomew Roberts
(Pembrockshire 17/5/1682 - Gabon 10/2/1722):
here the pirate lives and dies with only one friend, the Death




4 Stede Bonnet
(Barbados 1688 - Charleston 10/12/1708):
a only love, the death.




5 Pirat Byran (the Pirate Bay):

the Swedish Internet band hints at the same poetry of a bunch of men against the world under the same flag, an audio cassette in place of the skull) -